06 August 2014

Caterham 160


The BBC has an article by Tom Ford about an unusual automobile:
Understanding the Caterham 160 isn't hard. Here we have the simplicity of a "pure" driving experience made real: a bare-bones basic Caterham chassis with short wishbones, drum brakes and an LSD-less live axle. The aluminium bonnet hides a 660cc turbo three-pot the size of a couple of car batteries and, if you were worried about those drum brakes, don't be: it weighs under 500kg, and only produces 80bhp and a similar amount of torque. Rice pudding skin will rest easy. It even has fourteen-inch steel wheels (I've not seen them in a while) wrapped in 155/65 tires that have a smaller contact patch than most motorcycle tires do. See? I understand. But having driven the thing, I simply don't get why you'd ever actually want it. And if people keep referring to it as The Mighty Caterham, I'm going to have a less ironic sense of humor failure.

Rico says he's been out of the car game for seven years now, but if he were ever to get another one, it'd be that yellow Hummer he's been eying, not this...

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